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Following the discussion about direct map fragmentaion at LSF/MM [1], it appears that direct map fragmentation has a negligible effect on kernel data accesses. Since the only reason that warranted secretmem to be disabled by default was concern about performance regression caused by the direct map fragmentation, it makes perfect sense to lift this restriction and make secretmem enabled. secretmem obeys RLIMIT_MEMBLOCK and as such it is not expected to cause large fragmentation of the direct map or meaningfull increase in page tables allocated during split of the large mappings in the direct map. The secretmem.enable parameter is retained to allow system administrators to disable secretmem at boot. Switch the default setting of secretmem.enable parameter to 1. Link: https://lwn.net/Articles/931406/ [1] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230515083400.3563974-1-rppt@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.